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- From: stephen@bokonon.ussinc.com (Stephen M. Dunn)
- Subject: Re: Is UUCP is critical feature for Unix machine?
- Organization: United System Solutions Inc.
- Date: Tue, 9 Jan 1996 00:25:07 GMT
- Message-ID: <DKw15v.29u@bokonon.ussinc.com>
- References: <4cce5p$605@cmcl2.NYU.EDU> <60Fr7YA4YgB@quijote.in-berlin.de> <4chrtq$cpu@usenety1.news.prodigy.com>
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- In article <4chrtq$cpu@usenety1.news.prodigy.com> davidsen@tmr.com (bill davidsen) writes:
- $In article <60Fr7YA4YgB@quijote.in-berlin.de>,
- $Hans-Joachim Zierke <hajo@quijote.in-berlin.de> wrote:
- $
- $| I think you mean spoofing? If you want to get an original VAX for free, for
- $| your private home museum, you might need it. Standard Unix boxes run a full
- $| implementation of uucp (Taylor) today and won't need it any longer.
- $
- $Why should the implementation of UUCP make faster modems obsolete? I
- $always thought the idea of stripping the packet headers in the
- $modem, sending only the data, and then rebuilding the packet at the
- $other end was a rather neat approach.
-
- It is, kinda. But the benefits become pretty minimal if your
- protocol uses large packets. UUCP-g is the garden variety UUCP
- protocol, and most implementations run at a packet size of 64
- bytes plus 6 bytes of headers, so it's only about 91.4% efficient.
- Assuming your modems can transfer the data between each other
- using a more efficient protocol, then yes, you could improve
- throughput here by up to 10% or so in some cases.
-
- If you take UUCP-g to its limit of 4096 byte packets, though,
- the overhead is still 6 bytes per packet, and now you have 99.85%
- efficiency. That's assuming full packets, of course; AFAIK, a
- UUCP-g implementation may quite legally send packets smaller than
- the maximum size negotiated (reference: the UUCP Internals FAQ
- mentions that UUCP-G does not permit this, but many (though not
- all) UUCP-g implementations do). Chances are your modems with
- their spoofing technology will not be able to make a significant
- improvement over 99.85% efficiency.
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